Re: Kernel doesn't reclaim unused interface indexes?

2008-03-20 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 04:59:40PM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote: OpenBSD's currently limited to using interfaces with an index 32 for multicast, and on one of my machines I created and destroyed enough virtual interfaces during experimentation that some of the interfaces currently in use and

Re: Kernel doesn't reclaim unused interface indexes?

2008-03-20 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On 3/20/08, Claudio Jeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 04:59:40PM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote: OpenBSD's currently limited to using interfaces with an index 32 for multicast, and on one of my machines I created and destroyed enough virtual interfaces during

Re: Kernel doesn't reclaim unused interface indexes?

2008-03-20 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:12:44AM +0100, Claudio Jeker wrote: reused. I don't care about SNMP but I wanted to warn you about that. hey... :( but anyway, it shouldn't really matter when the if_index stays consistent as long as the interface exists. it is a dynamic interface, so i could live

Kernel doesn't reclaim unused interface indexes?

2008-03-19 Thread Matthew Dempsky
OpenBSD's currently limited to using interfaces with an index 32 for multicast, and on one of my machines I created and destroyed enough virtual interfaces during experimentation that some of the interfaces currently in use and that I would like to route multicast traffic to have indexes = 32.